@@actioncom2748 It's not sure, that Lonnegan experienced his own downfall after being tricked out of 500 thousand dollars - he was saved though from the bogus FBI-raid by the police-goon, he bought years ago!
I love the terms they use at the end. "Take a powder" means to depart to avoid a difficult situation and "welshed" which means to break an agreement. Nice touch.
I just noticed that that line is ADRd. You can see the sound doesn't quite match his lip movements. I wonder if Hill wanted a clearer pronunciation or just didn't like the sound but loved the expression so he had Newman re-record it
Sting one of Greatest movies of all time. Not only is acting sensational, but so is cinematography & sound editing. Example: In this clip at exactly 2:05 minute mark when Newman's call reveals 4,Jack's, the camera zooms in on the cards coupled with the hollow ghostly wail of a steam locomotive whistle. This is absolutely brilliant & kudos to whoever decided to insert it in this special scene. They should have gotten an award for it. Both the whistle & look on Robert Shaws face is one of the best combos in movie making. Why? Because to the real train buffs, this sound rings & reminds those who built & maintained the largest American Steam Locomotives of the 1930's that each engine had it's own personalities. No one engine was exactly like another. No one engine sounded exactly like the other. Sadly, It's a testament to Chicago 1930's vanishing of American era of styles & character that many of us loved..
+Smegweevil Smegweevil. i agree bro...i have watched this scene 20x and still enjoy it ! I am shocked the dude didn't question the validity of the cards and have them checked out ! lol
@@RB2331 the thing is, right before this game, Doyle Lonnegan (the bad guy) had his henchman Floyd (guy behind Henry) fix the cards in the deck with 9s and 3s. So he was already cheating. If he questions the validity, he would risk getting called out himself. He later says along the lines of “what was I supposed to do? Call him a better cheater than I?”
John Fay he did play Bond villain in classic 1963James Bond film From Russia With Love as the psychotic Spectre assassin Donald “Red” Grant who is hired to kill Sean Connery’s James Bond and they have some of the most famous scenes together in the James Bond series. I won’t give it away as you should see the movie one of Shaw’s best earlier films and Connery’s.
Ray Walston does a very nice job as part of the Sting team, as J.J. Singleton, the track announcer. I will have to get a copy from the library and show it to my sons.
@@Facelessman254 While I have to agree, he was far too American to play the part of an witty, up tight British (Not So) secret agent. What would have been marvelous would have been making a series of rival movies about an American agent with bravado and panache staring Paul. Essentially what James Cameron did years later with Arnie in True Lies to reboot Arnie's action figure persona, but with acting capabilities of Paul of course.
I will never forget how shocked and delighted I was when he showed four jacks… one of my favourite movies of all time! They don’t make movies like this anymore…
I think it was either when he slapped the card down on the table or when he reached in his pocket for his matches both of those are distracting to take any attention off of what he may be doing with his other hand but yeah that’s the mystery.
Ten nominations, seven wins. Wins Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Director - (George Roy Hill) Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay - (David S. Ward) Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - (Henry Bumstead and James W. Payne) Academy Award for Best Costume Design - (Edith Head) Academy Award for Film Editing - (William H. Reynolds) Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation - (Marvin Hamlisch) Nominations Academy Award for Best Actor - (Robert Redford) Academy Award for Best Cinematography - (Robert Surtees) Academy Award for Sound - (Ronald Pierce & Robert R. Bertrand)
Paul Newman looks like he is having so much fun these poker scenes in The Sting and I think he liked pushing Robert Shaw's buttons during the scenes who never broke character and I have a feeling Shaw wanted to kick his butt to has to be restrained from doing it, I love them both and they are the best.
Re some of the comments here, surely what makes this wonderful scene do deliciously joyous is that we KNOW what Henry did was in reality absolutely impossible in that pressure situation when he was being watched so carefully, so the sense of pleasure and justice when he then does it in the face of Doyle the vicious cheat's smugness is fantastic. I think the director, who was flawless throughout this movie - there isn't a flawed SECOND in it IMHO - was brilliant and original enough to realise that the audience wouldn't just 'accept' that something impossible was being done, they'd happily embrace it. ( A similar thing, albeit in a surreal comedy, happened when Gene Wilder 'showed' in the chess piece scene how quick on the draw he was in Blazing Saddles.)
lmao, yeah I am paying out of pocket getting my BAS because I don't want federal loans. I get it cut up into monthly payments, my god its a lot of money.
One of the better movies of all time, from a Con perspective..I think he was tipped by JJ earlier in the movie what Shaw would do..Saw this movie at least 100 times
The actor who looks like Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers is Charles Dierkop, he is a character actor born on September 11, 1936 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA, he was in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid 1969 as outlaw member of the Hole in the Wall Gang Flat Nose Curry, played Floyd, Robert Shaw's character Doyle Lonnegan bodyguard in The Sting 1973, the two movies were directed by George Roy Hill and starred Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
The question is how, how, does Gondorf switch the cards being so scrutinized by the other men so close to him in the car? Clearly, Gondorf is a master slight of hand expert and had the cards previously set up and ready. Always one step ahead of your enemy. He had to know that the four of a kind "pushed" to him was a set up. The key is he never shows it in his facial expressions. Gotchya!
You asked how how does Gondof switch the cards under heavy scrutiny? I am sure it's because clearly, Gondorf is a master slight of hand expert and had the cards previously set up and ready. As he is always one step ahead of your enemy he had to know that the four of a kind "pushed" to him was a set up. The key is he never shows it in his facial expressions. ................that's just what I think anyway ......how about you ?
@@babyyaoo8916 That's the punchline of Isleofskye's comment. Frank Smith answers his own question in his own comment making Frank's comment read like it was written very poorly.
When I watched The Sting for the first time I couldn’t stop thinking about how maybe 10-15 years ago you could’ve easily made a remake of this movie with M McConaughey for Newman and B Pitt for Redford.
There are precious few films that just ARE, irresistible, but this is surely one. it's such a good time, & the acting is top notch, that needing a " feel good " film makes this one a 1st class ride, all the way. -----MJL,
This is perfection. But great actors don't necessarily give you great scenes. So I wonder: How much of this is due to the director, George Roy Hill? I'm guessing that they huddled before shooting scenes, and the director built on everyone's ideas of how to play this. (Compare this to a movie like Argo, where I got the impression director Ben Affleck just turned the pages of the script and simply shot each page as written. No great, memorable scenes like this one, as a result.)
+Moy Musouka Couldn't agree with you more. It takes a great director to plan a scene like this... obviously you have to have the actors and a damn good script- but the tension, the camera work, the pacing- that's a filmmakers job.98% of the films I have seen come out of Hollywood- the last 3 years have left no lasting impression on me at all.Imagine they just remade "The secret in their eyes"- a movie that took best foreign language film in 2010. I saw the original because I live 3 blocks from an arthouse theater in San Francisco. They don't promote films that make most of the modern Hollywood stuff look like what they are- quickly shot-quickly promoted-anything to make a buck. Coppola spent 3 years making Apocalypse Now. Ben Affleck probably shot Argo in 40 days.
I wish they could explain how Paul Newman swapped 4 Jacks with the four 3s without getting spotted from behind. They never did explain how he got away with it. XD
That's no problem for someone skilled in sleight-of-hand card manipulation. Gondorff already knew that Lonnegan would likely cheat with four of a kind usually 9's or 10's and so he had four jacks and a fifth card hidden. The only real risk was if Lonnegan's fifth card had been a jack or even possibly the same as Gondorff's fifth card. Then Gondorff couldn't show his hand without getting caught for cheating and would have to fold.
